Philippa Cannan

Philippa trained in fine art painting at University of Brighton, tutored by Andrzej Jackowski. Graduating in 2010, she has held an number of successful solo shows. She creates her paintings by layering and pooling oil glazes. She writes: ‘I hope to create a sense of timelessness in my work and that each painting conveys a feeling of its own reality: a felt or imagined space, to which the viewer may respond. Animals, perhaps, symbolise life’s deepest energies: instinctual life. Through the process of painting, glimpses are taken into an arena of day-dream, memory and reverie; what Freud described as ‘free-floating attention.’